Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
honour widows who are really widows;
New American Standard Bible
Honor widows who are
King James Version
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Holman Bible
Support
International Standard Version
Honor widows who have no other family members to care for them.
A Conservative Version
Support widows, the real widows.
American Standard Version
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Amplified
Honor and help those widows who are truly widowed [alone, and without support].
An Understandable Version
Show consideration for true widows [i.e., those destitute of family members to care for them].
Anderson New Testament
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Bible in Basic English
Give honour to widows who are truly widows.
Common New Testament
Honor widows who are real widows.
Daniel Mace New Testament
show regard to widows that are really such.
Darby Translation
Honour widows who are really widows;
Godbey New Testament
Honor widows who are truly widows.
Goodspeed New Testament
Look after widows who are really dependent.
John Wesley New Testament
Honour widows that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or grand children, let these learn first to shew piety at home,
Julia Smith Translation
Honour widows, truly widows.
King James 2000
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Honor widows [who are] truly widows.
Modern King James verseion
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Honour widows which are true widows.
Moffatt New Testament
Widows who really need it must be supported from the funds.
Montgomery New Testament
Ever honor widows who are really widows;
NET Bible
Honor widows who are truly in need.
New Heart English Bible
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
Noyes New Testament
Honor as widows those that are widows indeed.
Sawyer New Testament
Support the widows who are widows indeed.
The Emphasized Bible
Widows, honour thou - who indeed are widows: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Honour the widows, that are widows indeed.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Show consideration for widows--I mean those who are really widowed.
Webster
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Weymouth New Testament
Honour widows who are really in need.
Williams New Testament
Always care for widows who are really dependent.
World English Bible
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
Worrell New Testament
Honor widows who are widows indeed.
Worsley New Testament
Honour widows who are widows indeed.
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 5:3
Prayers for 1 Timothy 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions About Widows
2 aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity; 3 honour widows who are really widows; 4 and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
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Cross References
Acts 6:1
And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,
Acts 9:39
And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.
Exodus 20:12
'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.
Deuteronomy 14:29
and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.
Deuteronomy 16:11
And thou hast rejoiced before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in thy midst, in the place which Jehovah thy God doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there,
Deuteronomy 16:14
and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates.
Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.
Job 29:13
The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
Job 31:16
If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
Psalm 68:5
Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.
Psalm 94:6
Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
Psalm 146:9
Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
Matthew 15:6
and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
Matthew 23:13
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
Luke 2:37
and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
Luke 7:12
and as he came nigh to the gate of the city, then, lo, one dead was being carried forth, an only son of his mother, and she a widow, and a great multitude of the city was with her.
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, 'Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.
1 Timothy 5:2
aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
1 Timothy 5:4-5
and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
1 Timothy 5:9-11
A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,
1 Timothy 5:16-17
If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.
James 1:27
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.
1 Peter 2:17
to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.
1 Peter 3:7
The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.